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Books of poetry, chapbooks and broadsides:

     Urika. Gloucester: Boat-train, forthcoming August 2009.

     Gravestones [A translation of Antonio Gamoneda’s Lápidas]. New Orleans: University of

          New Orleans Press, forthcoming September 2009.

            Prolog Pages. Tokyo and Toronto: Ahadada, December 2009.

            Commentary from the Ahadada catalog

                    Review in Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene by Pam Rosenblatt  

          Baroque Threads, an e-book, selected poems from the manuscript, Notebook: Cuaderno de Costa Rica, Mudlark, December, 2007.

            Fields, Kenosha: Light and Dust, 1995. Excerpts.

            Review: Cynthia Hogue, "Fields, poems by Don Wellman, in Witz" (Fall, 1996): 32-34.

         The House in the Fields, White Plains: Room, 1992.

         So For Then Also The Dragon, Milwaukee: Membrane, 1991.

Recent and forthcoming poetry:

• "Among Those," "Field of the Burned Souls" and "never Will" from North Atlantic Wall in Process: 500 Latvian Blondes, Boat Train: Gloucester (2009).

• "Nava cerrada" and "Antonio Machado" in Process: Prolegomena to the Study of Any Future, Gloucester: Boat Train (2009).

• “Bodies of Evidence” from Prolog Pages, Drunken Boat (2009).

• “North Atlantic Wall,” “[Considering the gardens…],” “[Under the influence of Sirius],” and ‘[A stone hut…]” in Process: The Basement Tapes, Gloucester: Boat Train (2009).

• “Medieval Exercise” from North Atlantic Wall in Eratio Postmodern Poetry 11 (2008).

• “Georgics” from Antonio Gamoneda's Libro del frío in Sirena (Dickinson College, 2008).

• “The Widows’ Dining Room” from Antonio Gamoneda’s Lápidas in Circumference (Fall 2008).

• “The Lesson” from Oaxaca in Chiron Review (2009).

• “Still” from Antonio Gamoneda's Libro del frío in Words Without Borders, December 2007.
• “Saturday” from Antonio Gamoneda's Libro del frío in Calque, October, 2007.
• “In Uxmal” from the Spanish of Octavio Paz and my poems “Uxmal” and “Valladolid” in Absent Magazine: Poetics, Culture, Policy. 2 (August 2007).
• “Dreamgrass,” “Old Men,” “Hours,” “The Sacred Body” and “The Coal Year” translated from the German of Yvan Goll’s Traumkraut in Calque 2 (Spring 2007).
• “Dioses de Oaxaca,” San Agustín,” “White Room.” and “Sacrament” in Eratio Postmodern Poetry 8 ( Fall 2006).
• “Your Sleep is a Closed Almond,” translated from the German of Yvan Goll. Circumference 5 (Fall 2006).
• “Rooftops.” House Organ. 55 (Summer 2006).
• Five poems from the collection Oaxaca at There, June 2006.
• Selections from my Prolog Pages, including the poems “Previously,” “Ensaladas,” and “Madrid” in BlazeVOX: Post-avant Poetries and Fiction (2005).
•  “Madre,” “El Palo,” “Málaga I,” “Málaga II,” “In the Archbishop's Palace,” “7.31” and “After Prados” from the “Andalucía” section of Prolog Pages in Fascicle 2 (Winter 2006).

• “Insomnia,” “Final Shadow,” and “On Earth” from Emilio Prados’ Jardín cerrado in Fascicle 2 (Winter 2006).

• “Tangier,” “Organic Form,” “Men Who Sublimate,” “Granada,” “Capileira,” “Bizcas,” “The Cartuja of Granada” and a photograph, “Arabesques,” in the on-line and print editions of the journal, Arabesques Review  (Chlef, Algeria), March 2006.
• Poetry, translations, prose and photographs (14 elements) from Diario Mexicano in Xcp: Streetnotes, Winter 2006.

Other Poetry in magazines and anthologies:

Under the Legislature of Stars (1999), Puckerbrush Review (1992), Interstate (1987), Zone 1986, Adz (1985, 1984), MC (1984, 1983), Tamarisk (1983), Polis (1983), Hyperion (1980), New Maine Writing (1980), Provincetown Poets (1978), Schist (1978), Boundary-2 (1978), Salted in the Shell (1978), Io: An Olson-Melville Sourcebook (1976), Hyperion (1976), Zahir (1976), Maine Review (1976), Cape Island Sound (1976).

Essays and reviews in magazines and anthologies:

• "Field Poetics (a compleat history of de-individualizing practices)." EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts (Fall 2009).
• "Seventies Prosody: 'The Tone-leading vowels.'" Jacket Magazine 36 (Late 2008).
• “Prose on Uxmal” [comparing approaches to the archaic in Octavio Paz, Charles Olson and contemporary poetry].” Absent Magazine: Poetics, Culture, Policy, 2007.
• “My Life Tangent to the Charles Olson Circle.” Minutes of the Charles Olson Society, Aug. 2007.
• “Aleatory displacement,” a review of Anne-Marie Albiach's Figured Image, tr. Keith Waldrop. Jacket Magazine 32 (April 2007).
• “Creeley’s Ear.” Jacket Magazine 31(October, 2006).
• “Olson and Subjectivity: 'Projective Verse' and The Uncertainties of Sex.” Olson Now: Documents. Electronic Poetry Center. SUNY Buffalo. Dec. 8, 2005. http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/olson/blog/. A revised version appears in Olson's Prose, Gary Grieve-Carlson editor. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, 47-61.
• “Field Poetics,” “Blaise Cendrars,” “The Prose of the Trans-Siberian Railroad and the Little Joan of France” (Cendrars), “Yvan Goll,” “Dream Grass” (Goll), “Jean Sans Terre” (Goll), and other articles in Companion to Twentieth Century World Poets and Poetry, ed. R. Victoria Arana (New York: Facts on File, 2008).
• Shadowtime: On-line review, Charles Bernstein (Libretto) and Brian Ferneyhough (Music). . July, 23, 2005.
• Contribution to “In Memoriam Robert Creeley, May 21, 1926 — March 30, 2005.” Conjunctions: The Web Forum of Innovative Writing. April 2005.
• “Emergent Subjectivity and the Transgressive Text,” Bridges Across Chasms: Towards a Transcultural Future in Caribbean Literature, ed. by Bénédicte Ledent. Liège: L3 -- Liège Language Literature, 2004, released 2005.
• “The Maximus Poems [of Charles Olson]” in Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (New York: Facts on File, Inc.), ed. Burt Kimmelman. 2005.
• “Cultural Cannibalism” in Assembling Alternatives: Essays on/against reading postmodern poetries transnationally. Ed. Romana Huk. Middleton: Wesleyan U P, 2003, released Fall 2004.
• “A Complex Realism: Reading Spring and All as Seminal for Postmodern Poetry,” Sagetrieb, Vol 18, Numbers 2 & 3;; also in William Carlos Williams and the Language of Poetry, Burton Hatlen and Demetres Tryphonopoulos, Editors, Orono: National Poetry Foundation. 2004.
• “A Partial Poetics: Absence of Essence” and “Textual Eruption” in Generator 7, 1996.
• “Frames, Fields, Meanings” and reviews of Corporal Politics and Photomontage and Modern Life in Frames, Forms, and Meaning. O.ARS 9, 1993.
• Untitled statement in Core: A Symposium on Contemporary Visual Poetry. Ed. John Byrum and Crag Hill (1993).
• “Palpable, Abstract, and Documentary Writing” in Patterns / Context / Time: A Symposium on Contemporary Poetry, ed. Philip Foss and Charles Bernstein (1990).
• “Voicing: The Instability of the Text” in Voicing, O.ARS 6/7, 1989.
• Review of Charles Bernstein’s Islets/Irritations in Sagetrieb 1986.
• “Are Paragraphs Emotional?” in Exquisite Corpse 4:3 (1986).
• Interview with Jean-Paul Curtay in Adz (1985).
• “Images” and “Lyric Interference” in Polis (1983).
• “Concerning...the Avant-garde” in Exquisite Corpse 3 (1983).
• “Serious Fiction” in Stony Hills (1980).

Local Histories, Web-Projects, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

• Cranberry Island:Remembered Histories.
• Witness for Elsie.
• My life Tangent to the Charles Olson Circle.

Editing: O.ARS: Anthologies Bearing on Questions in Postmodern Poetics

• Frames, Forms, and Meaning, O.ARS 9. O.ARS: Cambridge and Weare, 1993.
• Censorship and the Situation of Poetry, O.ARS 8. O.ARS: Cambridge and Weare: O.ARS 1991.
• Voicing. O.ARS 6/7, Cambridge: O.ARS, 1989.
• Translations: Experiments in Reading (A, B, & C), Three fascicles: O.ARS 3/4/5. Cambridge: O.ARS, 1983, 1984, 1986.
• Perception. O.ARS 2. Cambridge: O.ARS, 1982.
• Coherence: Experiments in Writing. O.ARS 1. Cranberry Isles and Cambridge: O.ARS, 1981.

Conference Papers and Presentations:

• 2008. Encuentro: La odisea de traducir literatura: aproximaciones al proceso traductológico, a conference on literary translation, sponsored by the International University Menéndez Pelayo in A Coruña. Participants include Francisco Garcia Tortosa (University of Seville), who has translated the works of James Joyce into Spanish, and John Rutherford (Queens College, Oxford), translator into English of Don Quixote. Collaborating with colleagues from the University of Kiel, Donald Wellman will present a workshop on the translation of the poetry of Antonio Gamoneda (Cervantes laureate 2006) from Spanish into English and German. Wellman and Gamoneda will also present Gamoneda’s Lápidas or Gravestones, translated into English by Wellman on the 27th at the FNAC bookstore in A Coruña. July 27-30.
• 2008. "Seventies Prosody: 'the tone leading of the vowels.'" National Poetry Foundation, Conference on the Poetry of the Seventies, Orono, Maine, June 11-15.
• 2007. “Emerging Identities: From the Periphery of Modernism: Armando Reveron, Wilfredo Lam, Ana Mendieta.” Modernist Studies Association, Long Beach, Nov. 1-4.
• 2007. “How Pound’s Ego is Dispersed Molecularly in The Pisan Cantos.” American Literature Association, Boston, May 24-27.
• 2006. “Olson and Subjectivity:  Projective Verse and the Uncertainties of Sex.” American Literature Association. San Francisco, May 24-27.
• 2005. Invited participant, Roundtable, “Rethinking the Modern Lyric.” Modernist Studies Association 7th Annual Conference. Loyola University, Chicago. Nov. 3-6.
• 2005. “Creeley's Ear.” Jack Kerouac Conference on Beat Literature, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Oct. 6-7.
• 2005. “Teaching Pound's Poetics.” Ezra Pound and Education. Hamilton College. Apr. 28-May 1.
• 2004. “Madre or Queen of the Mountain,” seminar paper on contemporary issues of identity in Latin culture, Modernist Studies Association 6th Annual Conference: Other Modernisms, Modernism's Other. Vancouver, BC, Oct. 21-24.
• 2004. Introduction, Keynote Address by Peter Quartermain. Louis Zukofsky Centennial Conference. Columbia University, New York. Sept. 17-19.
• 2004. “Williams and Césaire: Notebook,” National Poetry Foundation conference on “Poetries of the 1940s, American and International,” University of Maine, Orono, June 23-27.
• 2004. “Performing African Identities,” a contribution to the panel,  “Persona and the Performance of Race,” presented in collaboration with DWC colleagues, Daniel Malachuk and Laury Gordy, Cultural Studies Association conference, Northeastern University, Boston, May 5-9.
• 2002. “Expression and the Transhistorical Baroque,” seminar paper, Modern Studies Association. Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, Oct. 31-Nov 3.
• 2001. “Postmodern Baroque.” Modern Studies Association. Annual Conference, Rice University, Oct. 12-15.
• 2001. Conference Paper: “[tracings].” Nineteenth International Ezra Pound Conference: Ezra Pound and the Twentieth Century, Université de Paris - Sorbonne, July 5-8.
• 2000. Faculty Presentation: “The Book I Need to Write: An introduction to Tracings or frames: studies in visual language and hybridity.” Mondays @ 4, Daniel Webster College, Nov. 20, 2000.
• 2000. “Coherence and Immanence.” Modern Studies Association. Second Annual Conference, University of Philadelphia, Oct. 12-15.
• 2000. “Open Poetics and Subjectivity.” National Poetry Foundation: North American Poetry of the 1960s, University of Maine, June 28 - July 2.
• 2000. “Emergent Subjectivity and the Intercultural Test.” Association for the Study of New English Literatures (ASNEL), 23d Annual Conference. Aachen and Liege, May 31- June 4.
• 1999. “Incommensurabilities.” Post-Colonial Literature II, Seminar, New Modernisms Conference,  Pennsylvania State University October.
• 1998. Conference Paper: “Scaling the Sublime: Olson's Poetics and the Intercultural text.” American Literature Association Conference, San Diego, CA, May.
• 1997. “Charles Olson and Subjectivity.” American Literature Association Conference. Baltimore, May.
• 1996. “Outer Darkness: Charles Olson, Nathaniel Mackey and the Poetry of Incommensurable Realities.” MLA Convention, Washington DC, Dec.
• 1996. “Cultural Cannibalism and the Intercultural Text.” Assembling Alternatives, UNH, Durham, NH, Sept.
• 1996. “Jack Spicer's Conceptualization of the ‘Book.’” National Poetry Foundation. Conference on American Poetry in the 1950’s, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, June 19-23.
• 1996. “On Stevens, Bishop, and Olson.” American Literature Association. Conference on American Literature, San Diego, May 30 June 2.
• 1996. “Meaning and Method: Presence in Projective Verse and Language Poetry.” Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Feb. 22-24.
• 1995. “Re-reading Spring and All as Seminal for Postmodern Poetics.” American Literature Association, Conference on American Literature, Baltimore, May 26-28.
• 1995. “The Drama of Wole Soyinka,” New Hampshire Humanities Council, Exeter NH, Oct.